Re: [c-nsp] Serial lead

2011-03-30 Thread Chris Boyd
On Mar 29, 2011, at 3:39 PM, Nick Hilliard wrote: > It may not be the prettiest piece of software but it is awesomely > bullet-proof and awesomely well ported to just about every architecture and > operating system in the universe. When the aliens land, I bet we'll find out > that they use ke

Re: [c-nsp] Serial lead

2011-03-30 Thread Michael Robson
Ta for this info. On 29 Mar 2011, at 12:15, Nick Hilliard wrote: > On 29/03/2011 09:29, Michael Robson wrote: >> I have a new Macbook pro running Snow Leopard that i want to be able to >> connect to Cisco console ports and before getting the Mac I thought that >> this would be trivial; but I see

Re: [c-nsp] Serial lead

2011-03-30 Thread Nick Hilliard
On 30/03/2011 09:12, Alan Buxey wrote: huh? no problems with any 32-bit OSX here. 64-bit is a problem as you say my consistent experience is: - on 32 bit os/x, my USA-19HS usually works fine until about the third or fourth time it's unplugged from the USB socket, after which time I cannot

Re: [c-nsp] Serial lead

2011-03-30 Thread Alan Buxey
Hi, > > The keyspan USA-19HS does not work well on 32 bit os/x these days, and > > barely at all on 64 bit. huh? no problems with any 32-bit OSX here. 64-bit is a problem as you say alan ___ cisco-nsp mailing list cisco-nsp@puck.nether.net https:

Re: [c-nsp] Serial lead

2011-03-29 Thread Vinny Abello
Don't accidentally or purposefully unplug one while in use or it might kernel panic OS X on you. At least it did consistently for me. -Vinny On Tue, 29 Mar 2011 23:18:44 -0500, Doug McIntyre wrote: On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 12:15:40PM +0100, Nick Hilliard wrote: The keyspan USA-19HS does not w

Re: [c-nsp] Serial lead

2011-03-29 Thread Doug McIntyre
On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 12:51:40PM +0100, Gary Smith wrote: > On 29/03/2011 12:48, Aled Morris wrote: > > me too > > > > but when connected to a FreeBSD laptop it does send break so it must be a > > driver limitation > If anyone is using a driver under OSX, could you let me know what it is? > Goo

Re: [c-nsp] Serial lead

2011-03-29 Thread Doug McIntyre
On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 12:15:40PM +0100, Nick Hilliard wrote: > The keyspan USA-19HS does not work well on 32 bit os/x these days, and > barely at all on 64 bit. ??? I have dozens of the Keyspan units in production with no problems anywhere, with a wide range of various versions of OSX. I hav

Re: [c-nsp] Serial lead

2011-03-29 Thread Nick Hilliard
On 29/03/2011 19:26, Wil Schultz wrote: I've been using ZTerm for... *gasp*... close to a decade, which seems to be about the last time it was updated. :-) With Lion (10.7) right around the horizon, and the fact that Rosetta will (likely) be gone entirely from Lion, it's about time I got around

Re: [c-nsp] Serial lead

2011-03-29 Thread Aaron
I am using the keyspan with little problems. I'm using securecrt for the mac. The current of securecrt (6.7.0 (build 123)) version seems to have fixed the previous requirement to map a key to send break, aka tn_break. On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 15:15, ryanL wrote: > screen /dev/tty still works ;-)

Re: [c-nsp] Serial lead

2011-03-29 Thread ryanL
screen /dev/tty still works ;-) otherwise: http://www.furrysoft.de/?page=goserial On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 12:26 PM, Wil Schultz wrote: > > On Mar 29, 2011, at 6:41 AM, > wrote: > but when connected to a FreeBSD laptop it does send break so it must be a driver limitation >>> It's a w

Re: [c-nsp] Serial lead

2011-03-29 Thread Wil Schultz
On Mar 29, 2011, at 6:41 AM, wrote: >>> but when connected to a FreeBSD laptop it does send break so it must be a >>> driver limitation >> It's a while since I've looked to be honest, so it's probably my shonky >> memory there. Certainly, I've not found a way using the PL2303 and >> driver tha

Re: [c-nsp] Serial lead

2011-03-29 Thread Christopher.Marget
> > but when connected to a FreeBSD laptop it does send break so it must be a > > driver limitation > It's a while since I've looked to be honest, so it's probably my shonky > memory there. Certainly, I've not found a way using the PL2303 and > driver that I am (which is a kext file downloaded of t

Re: [c-nsp] Serial lead

2011-03-29 Thread Ryan Wilkins
On Mar 29, 2011, at 6:26 AM, Gary Smith wrote: >> > I'm using a PL2303 based converter. Down side is that you can't send break > commands with it (limitation of the chipset, apparently). Cost me less than a > tenner, though. > I've run into the break problem in the past, however, a work aro

Re: [c-nsp] Serial lead

2011-03-29 Thread Sigurbjörn B. Lárusson
The PL2303 hardware is certainly capable of sending breaks, I do so with mine. Driver support for it is another story entirely. Kind regards, Sibbi On 29.3.2011 11:42, "Phil Mayers" wrote: > On 29/03/11 12:26, Gary Smith wrote: > >> I'm using a PL2303 based converter. Down side is that you c

Re: [c-nsp] Serial lead

2011-03-29 Thread Gary Smith
On 29/03/2011 12:48, Aled Morris wrote: me too but when connected to a FreeBSD laptop it does send break so it must be a driver limitation It's a while since I've looked to be honest, so it's probably my shonky memory there. Certainly, I've not found a way using the PL2303 and driver that I am

Re: [c-nsp] Serial lead

2011-03-29 Thread Aled Morris
On 29 March 2011 12:26, Gary Smith wrote: > using a PL2303 based converter. Down side is that you can't send break > commands with it (limitation of the chipset, apparently). Cost me less than > a tenner, though. > > me too but when connected to a FreeBSD laptop it does send break so it must be

Re: [c-nsp] Serial lead

2011-03-29 Thread Phil Mayers
On 29/03/11 12:26, Gary Smith wrote: I'm using a PL2303 based converter. Down side is that you can't send break commands with it (limitation of the chipset, apparently). Cost me less than a tenner, though. I am pretty sure I've sent breaks on a PL2303 before, but it's been a while. ___

Re: [c-nsp] Serial lead

2011-03-29 Thread Gary Smith
On 29/03/2011 12:15, Nick Hilliard wrote: The keyspan USA-19HS does not work well on 32 bit os/x these days, and barely at all on 64 bit. There is a pre-alpha quality driver on the keyspan web site, but it causes more trouble than it's worth (i.e. kernel panics, randomly stops working until yo

Re: [c-nsp] Serial lead

2011-03-29 Thread Nick Hilliard
On 29/03/2011 09:29, Michael Robson wrote: I have a new Macbook pro running Snow Leopard that i want to be able to connect to Cisco console ports and before getting the Mac I thought that this would be trivial; but I see now that people can have problems finding USB-to-Serial leads that actually

[c-nsp] Serial lead

2011-03-29 Thread Michael Robson
I have a new Macbook pro running Snow Leopard that i want to be able to connect to Cisco console ports and before getting the Mac I thought that this would be trivial; but I see now that people can have problems finding USB-to-Serial leads that actually work with their Macs. I have tried a Keysp